[Jlawry]

Well i fixed it. haha

and yes, it was one of those little little things that had gone unnoticed.

I went back and had a look through the Kona control panel and there it was, low and behold someone had left the GenLock setting for playback timing on Freerun and not Ref in!

Mmm frame accruate recording. Much better,

Thanks for all the help.

[Jlawry]

Well control is via the kona card.. so rs422 out the breakout cable to the box. and then as i understand out of the box comes rs232 and goes to the deck.

COMs come out of my box and into a COMs patch bay.. which isnt used by anything else, not even sure why its there but oh well. Out the back of that patch comes 1 COMs cable which i manually pull out of one deck and put into the other when i switch between decks.

I’ve also got a couple DSR1500 around the place too not being used so i’ll connect up one of those and give it a try. The 1500s insides are the same as the dsr1800 and 2000s which i know assemble edit.

I’ll try and directly connect coms to the deck when i get a chance and let you know.

[Jlawry]

Yes i can get signal to the deck fine, like (i hope) i said in my first post, i can see the video play down through the monitor attached to the deck, the deck just never starts recording.

Im going, Kona LHe card – to the Kona Breakout Box (so SDI in – YUV out) and then all YUV is then going into a SIGMA HPX YUV router and out into the dsr 80 being controlled by RS232 coming out of the Kona Box.

Timeline wise its an Uncompressed 10 bit 4:2:2 timeline at 25FPS (pal down here in NZ) 720×576 48.0KHz – PAL CCIR 601 Pixel Aspect Ratio. – And all footage on the timeline is uncompressed 10 bit 422 that has been brought it in via the LHe Card.

Running FCP 5.1.4 and im guessing from going – About AJA Kona Control Panel and it saying Version 3.3 so i guess im running 3.3… Im kinda new to this who AJA thing. I didnt set this Mac up btw.

Cheers for all the help so far.

[Jlawry]

No problem jeremy, its usually always the little things that make the difference.

So, thats a yes to reference, and a yes to the TC settings in the deck being setup correctly and no, write protect hasnt been flipped.

I’ve gone through and checked all my output settings and device control settings and they are all what they should be.

I just tried again following your sets and had the same result. One thing i have noticed on the deck however is even though it seems to go intro ‘Edit Mode’ (that comes up on the display) the worlds ‘Not Editable’ flash a couple times on the deck and then go away.

Now i’ve had a quick search of the net and found a couple people saying the deck can edit… but after noticing the not editable message come up im doubting that more and more.

What i have been told however by the companies tech is that the deck has been used to Digital Cut projects out of their old Avid suite.. So this is where i got the info that the deck could edit, but it appeares they maybe wrong.

[Jlawry]

no i am positive that both decks support assemble editing.

[Jlawry]

noones got any ideas? is this because its a stupidly easy problem that i should be able to fix myself by searching the net or because no ones got a clue?